Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Australian Geology                                                                                                           
Abyssal Water Circulation
Acraman Impact Horizon see Ediacaran Fauna
Accretionary Prism
Adelaide Fold Belt See Neoproterozoic Australia
Adelaide Rift Complex See Neoproterozoic Australia
Adventure Tracks
Amelia Creek Impact Structure
Archaean
Argoland - Argo Abyssal Plain
Aridification of Australia
Arnhem Land - Arnhem Block
A-tents (pop-ups)
Australian Alps
Australian-Antarctic Depression
Australian Continent
Australian Landscapes - Cretaceous to recent
Australian Mesoproterozoic
Australian Neoproterozoic
Australian Soils
Australian Volcanoes
Basins
Baxter Cliffs -
Bedout High
The Blue Mountains
Breakup of Gondwana - Australia from Antarctica
Broken Bay - example of geological history during times of low sea level
Bunda Cliffs - Nullarbor Plain
Bunda Plateau - Nullarbor Plain
Bungle Bungles
Canning Basin
Cape York Peninsula
Capricorn Orogeny
Central Australia
Central Australian Basins
Central Australian Groundwater Discharge Zone
Centralian Superbasin See Neoproterozoic Australia
Chambers Pillar
Chemical Weathering
Collision of East and West Gondwana
Columbia
Cradle Mountain
Deserts
Devil's Marbles
Drifting
Drifting - Changes on the Continent
Drifting - Changes to drainage systems resulting from rifting
Drifting - direction change in the Middle Cretaceous and Middle Eocene
Duricrust
Earthquake Distribution
Earthquakes
Eastern Australia
Effects of water from the Great Artesian Basin on soil
Fluvial Landforms
Gawler Craton
Geological History see more
Gilgais
Glickson Impact Structure
Gosse's bluff
Gondwana
Great Barrier Reef
Great Dividing Range
Hampton Range - Nullarbor Plain
Heavitree Quartzite See Neoproterozoic Australia
Iapetus Ocean
Indo-Australian Plate
Supercontinent Cycle & Icehouse to Greenhouse Cycle
Great Australian Bight
Terranes
The Great Journey North
    Stages on the Way
The Great Journey South
Hamersley Range
 
Ice Ages
 
Inselbergs
Island Arc Systems - Morphology
Israelite Plains - Nullarbor Plain
Journey Back Through Time
Kalbarri Coast
Kanimblan Orogeny
Katherine Gorge
Kimberley Block
King's Canyon
Lachlan Fold Belt
Lakes
Landforms
MAPCIS - Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure
Mass Movements of Materials
Mawson Continent
Mount Connor
Mount Kinahan Sandstone See Neoproterozoic Australia
Musgrave Block - also
Musgravian Orogeny
Musgrave Province
Neogene
Neoproterozoic Australia
Nullarbor Plain
Ocean Trenches
Oceanic Crust-Origins
Palaeodrainage
Palaeogene
Palaeoproterozoic Australia
Palaeozoic Era
Pangaea
Pediments
Perth Basin
Pidinga Formation - Nullarbor Plain
Physical Weathering
Pinnacle Desert see Nambung National Park see Perth Basin - Cervantes-Jurien Area
Plate Tectonics
Precambrian Heat Flow
Precambrian Ice Age
Precambrian Tectonics
Profiles of the southern continents
Propagating Rifts and Microcoplates 
Pyramid Hill
Ranges
Regimes - Innamincka Regime See Australian Palaeogeography
Regimes - Potoroo See Australian Palaeogeography
Rifting
Continental Rifts & Rifted Margins
Narrow Rifts - General Characteristics
Riverine Plains
Rodinia
Roe Plains - Nullarbor Plain
Salt
Separation
Separation-Drainage Changes
Sheet Fractures
Snowball Earth
Southern Ocean
Southwest Tasmania
Stability of Australia
Stirling Range - Koi Kyeunu-ruff
Subduction Zones - Structure
Subduction Zones - Variation of Characteristics
Submarine Canyons
Supercontinent cycle
Supercontinents and Superplume Events
Sydney Basin
Tasman Fold Belt System
Tasman Peninsula
Tectonic Landforms
Terra Australis Orogen
Terranes
Tidal Waterfalls - Horizontal waterfalls
Timeline of Australian Volcanoes
Tookoonooka Crater
Townsend Quartzite See Neoproterozoic Australia
Transform and strike-Slip Faults-Continental
Triple Junction Stability
Tweed Volcano
Uluru  - Ayre's Rock
Vaughn Springs Quartzite See Neoproterozoic Australia
Volcanoes
The Warrumbungles
Weathering
Westward Subduction Beneath the Australian East Coast
Wilson's Bluff Limestone - also
Wolfe Creek Crater
Wylie Scarp - Nullarbor Plain
Yilgarn Craton

 

The Video Across Australia visits many of the places of geological interest on this site.

Links

  1. Australia Through Time
  2. Earth Science Australia
  3. Shields Up: Magnetized Rocks Push Back Origin of Earth's Magnetic Field
  4. Tectonic Evolution of Proterozoic Australia
  5. The Building Blocks of a Continent
  6. New theory for what drives plate tectonics

Sources & Further reading

  1. The Video Across Australia visits many of the places of geological interest on this site.

 

Author: M. H. Monroe
Email:  admin@austhrutime.com
Last Updated 30/09/2011

 

 

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